Amazon MGM Studios said on Thursday that it had struck a deal with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, the British-American heirs to the film producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and longtime stewards of the Bond films.
With creative control, Amazon will have the power to move forward with new films and potentially TV spin-offs too, without approval from Wilson and Broccoli, who have overseen the integrity of the character originally created in 1953 by the author Ian Fleming.
Amazon has paid $1bn (£790m) for “creative control” of the James Bond franchise, the Guardian understands, in a deal that has met with a mixed response from stars of the films.
Daniel Craig congratulates producers Broccoli and Wilson, while actor Valerie Leon says Bond franchise won’t be as ‘British’.
The world’s second largest corporation by revenue confirmed it had formed a joint venture with the duo to house the James Bond intellectual property with Amazon assuming “creative control”.
